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Call for Abstracts
Vital Signs: Researching Real Life
An international and interdisciplinary conference
Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for
Research Methods
9-11 September 2008
University of Manchester, UK
Keynote speakers:
Prof Les Back (Sociology, Goldsmiths)
Prof Tim Ingold (Anthropology, Aberdeen)
Prof Carolyn Steedman (History, Warwick)
'Real life' is complex and complicated. How can we use research
methodologies and methods to produce knowledge and understandings that
are 'vital' and that resonate with everyday life? Abstracts are
invited for papers, posters or symposia around the following themes:
* Methods for researching nature, culture, the material and the social
* Researching visual, auditory, tactile and other sensory realms
* Bridging different disciplines in understanding real life
* Mixing methods in real life research
* Accessing, measuring, and representing real life. What counts as 'evidence'?
* Authenticity, rigour and rhetoric in real life research
* Researching intersubjectivity, memory, emotions, and humour
* Communicating and disseminating real life research
* Challenges in analysing real life data
* Real life research in policy and politics
* Participatory real life research
* Real life research ethics and moralities
* What is real life? Theorising real life
The deadline for abstracts is Friday 7 March 2008.
Full details and submission guidelines at:
http://www.reallifemethods.ac.uk/events/vitalsigns/
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